Specifications

simply enter the digipeater routing
path
in
your
connect
request. Here's a
sketch that shows how
digipeating can solve a simple
problem:
KB6ruX
I
WO6P
KG6ZL
You're station WO6P and
you
want to have a
packet
QSO
with KG6ZL, but there's
a
"cumulo-granite
cloud"
(mountain)
between
you
that completely
blocks
your
radio
path.
However,
you
know that there's
a
packet
station, KB6ruX, that
is accessibleto both
you
and
KG6ZL
located
on
the mountain top.
To digipeat through
(
y/A)
KB6IUX,
enter:
cmd: CKG6ZLVKBOIUX
. . . but
KB6II-X
doesn't
have DFROM ON, so no one can
use him as a digipeater.
What now?
Pick up the
telephone and call
your
friend atKG6ZL? Not necessarily.
You listen some more
and
you
can
hear another
station,
KD7NM, off to the side of the
mountain chaning with
WF7A. WFTA
is in a location
where
you
know he can reach
KG6ZL.
So,
you
enter the linear,
point-to-point path
you
need to use to
connect to
KG6ZL:
cmd:
C KG6ZL V KDTNM,WFTA
They both have DFROM ON, so a
f'ew
seconds
later
you
receive an ack back
from KG6ZL and
you're
all
set.
ldentifying as a
Digipeater
I1'your PK-96 is being
used as the
primary
digipeater
in a local area,
you
may want
to enable HID-it
will
automatically identify
your
station
for others to see.
You
may also want to choose a simple
identifier fbr others to use.
You set it with
MYALIAS.
Examples are:
SEA
for Seattle; PTLD for Portland;
LYNN for Lynnwood, and so on.
Time-stamping Packets and
Messages
Monitored
packets
can be time-stamped
if the PK-96's
internal
clock
has been set
with DAYTIME.
To
time-stamp
monitored
packets,
turn
MSTAMP ON. Turning
DAYSTAMP OtV adds the
date to the
time-
stamp
provided
by MSTAMP.
Sometimes
it is
useful
to know what time
someone connected to
you-perhaps for logging
purposes. To
time-stamp
your packet
connects
and disconnects,
turn CONSTAMP
ON. As discussed
in thc
last
para
graph,
turning DAYSTAMP ON
will add the date
to this time-stamp
as well.
The DAYTIME
command
must be set first for
DAYSTAMP to operate.
Are You a
Digipeater?
Your
packet
station can be
a digipeater for other
stations. You don't have to
"do"
anything-your
PK-96
will digipeat
other stations unless
you
tell intot
lo by using DFROM.
If
your
transmitter
keys
when
you're
not using it or during
lulls in
your
own conversations,
you're
being
used as a digipeater by someone.
Don't worry-this won't
interfere with
your
conversation.
(As
a courtesy,
leave DFROM
ON.)
Il'you want to see, or monitor, the text
the other stations are sending
through
you, set MDIGI ON.